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2025

• South Skyline Emergency Preparedness Organization is now in it’s 25th season. Meetings this year included discussions on dedicated fundraising activities, recruiting volunteers and learning how to get emergency preparedness information in a timely manner to residents. An update of neighborhood coordinators activities including emergency drill procedures wascompleted.
  
• Two Community Preparedness Days were held in July and September, cohosted by South County Firesafe Council, reaching around a hundred neighbors, vendors and local first responders. Neighborhood coordination, Stop the Bleed class, fire extinguisher training, and home insurance and home hardening were presented. Collaboration was established with the San Mateo County Medical Reserve Corp, to bring a Wilderness Medicine Course to the area, and a meeting with Ariba South Coast was held to determine how our trainings may be adapted to the Spanish speaking community on the coast. SSEPO members managed car traffic and
  
• Parking Control for the Saratoga Summit annual Pancake breakfast in May.
  
• Our annual Neighborhood Community Drill was held in October, and challenged each neighborhood in a simulated disaster, to contact their neighbors in the shortest amount of time. Reports indicate that most of the neighbors were contacted within the first 2 hours, with full coverage requiring about a day. Bryan Osborne maintained our mobile communications trailer , and in addition to GMRS and Ham radio use, he introduced DMR ( Digital Mobile Radio) which is like a phone call with Winlink.
  
• One of SSEPO's most important tasks is to reach out to neighborhoods who are new to emergency preparedness and help them get started.  This often starts with people coming to our classes, visiting our website or reading our articles online.  While the organization started with the neighborhoods in the core South Skyline area along SR35 between Windy Hill and SR9, it turns out many neighborhoods in the mountains share
  
• the same needs, and we have been spreading the word further and further afield. In the last year we have worked with groups in Pescadero, La Honda and the general SR84 corridor west of Skyline Blvd.  We have also engaged with neighbors as far north as Kings Mountain.  To the south and east, we have been working with the Lake Canyon neighborhood near the bottom of Black Road, as well as neighbors off of Summit southeast of SR17.   It illustrates the unique nature of our content, that is well tuned to​ the needs of rural mountain dwellers here in the Bay Area.

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